VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (letter)

Congress for sale

January 09, 2006|By Larry Zawilenski

Chicago — Jack Abramoff pleads guilty and confirms what we already suspect: that Congress is for sale to the highest bidder. We naively believe that our representatives act based on the best interests of the American people, but eventually find out that greed was the prime motivator. The common good is sold out to special interests. My hat goes off to the prosecutors in the Justice Department who ferret out the bribe-takers and influence peddlers. They are the heroes. And the congressmen who have betrayed the trust of the American people should be branded as traitors and made to pay for their crimes.